• Muad'DibberMA
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    84 years ago

    This is great stuff too:

    And this is where I’m going to drop the hammer for what few anarchists actually managed to slog their way to the end of this essay. If the preceding explanations did not make it clear, let’s be forthcoming and blunt. Anarchism is outdated and irrelevant, already, it’s just a matter of the last remaining anarchists (existing overwhelmingly in the West, being predominantly white, and largely from the middle classes) to acknowledge it, but have yet to do so. If you were to add up all the anarchists in all the world (throw in all the leftcoms too!), they would still be outnumbered by the number of Marxist-Leninists in the province of Kerala, India, alone (thanks to Vijay Prashad for that tidbit). They have yet to recognize they are in the most racist, and philosophically backwards nations on the planet, and those reactionary influences have shaped and defined their worldview. They don’t realize that nearly all of the information they consume comes from the bourgeoisie, and somehow they cannot figure out why they keep ending up fighting on the same team as the Empire (Hong Kong, Ukraine, Korea, Syria, etc — it’s amazing how they always manage to end up on the exact same team as American business interests).

    There is a reason that all the revolutions in the poorest and most oppressed places on the planet, still today, practice Marxism-Leninism and not Anarchism. It isn’t because they aren’t aware of anarchism — this dismissals of the Global South as not being just as politically aware as Western anarchists is backwards and chauvinist. Anarchists are not important, at all in the real world of today, and themselves need to find reason to dismiss or even dehumanize the vast numbers of Marxist-Leninist around the globe (especially in the Global South), to validate their already dead philosophy. Anarchists think that they are “eliminating the divides” by having no clear ideology or philosophy to construct society or plan, and that in eliminating those divides, they have better united us. But in all reality, those material divides are deep, and in failing to address them in same the way ML(M) philosophies do, they leave the contradictions unresolved and exploitable to the detriment of the revolution. In conclusion, anarchists need to find their lack of tanks to be more disconcerting.

    • @TeethOrCoat
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      74 years ago

      this dismissals of the Global South as not being just as politically aware as Western anarchists is backwards and chauvinist

      Painfully true and I applaud the prescience of @DashRendar@lemmygrad.ml for this. This is how they go right along spreading the imperialists’ propaganda even after it was revealed that the GS countries overwhelmingly stood on PRC’s side when it came to XJ and HK.